In a quick Emerson Exchange 365 Operate & Maintain group discussion post, Plant modernization for energy efficiency and loss control, Emerson's Barbara Hamilton alerted the community to a nice article in Control Engineering Asia magazine. The article with the same...
Industrial Energy & Onsite Utilities
Measure, Monitor and Improve Energy Efficiency
A recent Top Quartile post, The Path to (Energy) Recovery: Reduce Waste to Boost the Bottom Line, shared a statistic from the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy: …the energy used by U.S. manufacturing plants costs the nation an additional $180 billion...
Renewables Growing Faster than Expected
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo As we have been reporting in this blog, the energy scenario is changing. In fact, it might be changing faster than anyone expected due the low oil prices. As reported by the World Energy Outlook 2015, "renewables contributed almost half of...
Grid Complexities and the Race for Energy Storage
Author: Douglas Morris Apple just announced that they plan to construct a 200MW solar project in China to help the company meet its goals for carbon neutrality. One of the concerns, though, is whether or not the local transmission & distribution grid system can...
Improving Boiler Operations with Better Measurements
Emerson's Bob Sabin, Tim Badger and Scott Pettigrew teamed up on the presentation, Fix Tough Measurement Problems to Improve Boiler Operation. Their abstract: While boilers are crucial to plant/mill business results, many times their performance is lacking. Poor...
Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Use
Emerson's Dr. Douglas White presented, Reducing Process Plant Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Use Through Automation. His abstract: Even with the recent reduction in energy prices, energy remains the largest cost after feedstocks for most process plants. Reducing...
Solving Power Quality Reliability Problems
Emerson's Tinh Phan teamed with Peter Pan from Emerson Climate Technologies on an Emerson Exchange presentation, WirelessHART Power Metering Solving Power Quality Reliability Problems. Their abstract: Having power issues on your critical assets? Emerson robust wired...
How the Sun Affects Your Utility Bill
Author: Douglas Morris Catalina Island is home to many attractions including theaters, casinos, and Hollywood stars. It's also home to a self-contained utility system called a microgrid, which is a mini version of the electrical grid supplying your home or place of...
Reducing Plant Energy Consumption
In an earlier post, Identifying Components then Optimizing Industrial Energy Consumption, we discussed how energy optimization initiatives were affected by what could be measured. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a great comment to that post, which I will share here to...
Avoiding the Impact of Steam Trap Failures
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, industrial manufacturers are larger energy consumers than the transportation, residential and commercial sectors. The industrial sector accounts for around 30 trillion BTUs of energy consumed annually....
Real-time Measurements Improve Energy Efficiency
The latest Innovations in Process Control publication by the Emerson team in Europe has an article on where additional measurements can help identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption and improve operations. For readers who have English as a second language,...
Optimizing Energy Consumption with Real-Time Feedback
As energy prices slowly creep higher from earlier lows, the need for managing energy usage remains constant for most process manufacturers and producers. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy-Intensive Process Portfolio list processes in the refining, petrochemicals,...
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